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Does it seem like you’re chewing on tin foil all the time?
Though it’s no consolation, that metallic taste is a common complaint and in fact there are numerous possible causes for it.
A number of medications are known to cause a metallic taste as a side effect.  Some common ones include the antibiotics metronidazole and tetracycline, [...]

It’s 5:45 pm. You’ve arrived at volleyball practice early. You decide you should do a bit of stretching to warm-up. Maybe you bend over to touch your toes for 30 seconds (or, if you’re like me, you just aim for your toes and try to breathe through the pain of stretching for 30 seconds). Perhaps [...]

My over-sensitive nasal passages are already constricting as I think about all the sweaty, au naturel armpits I’ll have to stand next to on the subway if people take note of the latest research regarding antiperspirants — and if further research corroborates the adverse effects of the product’s use.
The concern with antiperspirants stems from aluminum salts, which are [...]

All over New York City, the smoking few huddle outside of restaurants because smoking indoors has, since 2003, been banned in most public New York City establishments.

However, Hookah bars—gathering places where people go to smoke flavored tobacco from a waterpipe—offer the chance to keep smokers’ fingers warm by openly advertising a menu of hookah flavors, to be smoked indoors.

The smoking ban in New York City  was implemented to protect the

It itches between your toes, between your fingers, and other places you’d rather not mention. What is it? And how do you get rid of it. Well, your irritation may be due to scabies, a.k.a. Sarcoptes scabiei, a parasitic mite transmitted by skin-to-skin contact with infected individuals. Scabies shows up as a raised, red rash with visible burrows in the

Last week, while flying home for a high school reunion, I sat next to a very pleasant, talkative woman and her adorable and polite 8 year-old son. The woman and I started chatting and eventually I learned that she is an accountant, and I in turn shared that I am a doctor. Sometime later she non-chalantly explained that she had gotten pregnant

All the hospitals I’ve worked in, and I presume all hospitals nation-wide, have a questionnaire that all patients must respond to prior to getting an MRI. It asks about metal implants (such as cardiac pacemakers), piercings, and tattoos that, if present, would presumably prevent the patient from getting an MRI. But, after researching the issue, [...]

My knee-jerk response to this question is another question: if you are sick enough to require antibiotics, why are you out partying/ drinking alcohol in the first place? Stay in bed and recover!

But for those who just can’t miss out on the party, I have a detailed answer.
Alcohol consumption decreases your immune system’s ability to fight infection by inhibiting the proliferation of white blood cells (cells that attack an infection)